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Definition of Thready
1. Adjective. Forming viscous or glutinous threads.
2. Adjective. Thin in diameter; resembling a thread.
Similar to: Thin
Derivative terms: Filament, Thread
Definition of Thready
1. a. Like thread or filaments; slender; as, the thready roots of a shrub.
Definition of Thready
1. Adjective. Of, resembling of capable of forming a thread; filamentous ¹
2. Adjective. (context: of a pulse) weak ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Thready
1. resembling a thread [adj THREADIER, THREADIEST]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Thready
Literary usage of Thready
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Trees and Shrubs: An Abridgment of the Arboretum Et Fruticetum Britannicum by John Claudius Loudon (1875)
"Leaves linear lanceolate; green, recurved, deflexed, slightly thready on the margin.
... The filamentose Yucca, or thready Adam's Needle. ..."
2. An Encyclopaedia of Trees and Shrubs: Being the Arboretum Et Fruticetum by John Claudius Loudon (1869)
"Engraving. Oar fig. . in p. Spec, Char., $c. With a stem. Leaves linear lanceolate;
green, recurved, deflexed, slightly thready on the margin. ..."
3. A Dictionary of Psychological Medicine: Giving the Definition, Etymology and by Daniel Hack Tuke (1892)
"... thready, or, at times even more homogeneous, fibrin with scanty round cells.
" The newly formed vessels of the membrane are particularly prone to bleed, ..."
4. Text-book of Homeopathic Materia Medica by George Royal (1920)
"... pulse small and thready." For its physiological effects use 5 grains of the
crude drug; for its homeopathic effects use 5 grains of the 2x or 3x. ..."
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